Crossword-Solution: PLASTICS 8 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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20th century industry. 1 answer
Acetate and cellophane 1 answer
Bakelite, lucite, etc. 1 answer
Classic quote from "The Graduate" 1 answer
Compounds formed by polymerization 1 answer
Large industry 1 answer
Memorable word from "The Graduate" 1 answer
Milk-bottle materials 1 answer
Non-biodegradable items 1 answer
Packaging suppliers' industry 1 answer
Synthetic compounds. 1 answer
The Father of ___, moniker for the inventor Leo Baekeland 1 answer
VINYL polymers 1 answer
Synthetic materials 3 answers
CELLOPHANE ___ 6 answers
Acetate Any 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PLASTICS (5)

Some of the kampong people had just returned from a rubber expedition, and part of the output had been cleverly turned into plastics in this way.
Through Central Borneo: Carl Lumholtz 2005
VII SYNTHETIC PLASTICS In the last chapter I told how Alfred Nobel cut his finger and, daubing it over with collodion, was led to the discovery of high explosive, dynamite.
Creative Chemistry Edwin E. Slosson 2005
Without going into the question of their variations and relative merits we may consider the advantages of the pyroxylin plastics in general.
Creative Chemistry Edwin E. Slosson 2005
Nowadays such things as celluloid and pyralin can be sold under their own name, but in the early days the artificial plastics, like every new thing, had to resort to _camouflage_, a very humiliating expedient since in some cases they were better than the material they were forced to imitate.
Creative Chemistry Edwin E. Slosson 2005
After nine years of close association with Edison he set up a little laboratory in his own back yard to work out new plastics.
Creative Chemistry Edwin E. Slosson 2005

Quotes with PLASTICS (3)

It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted … secretly, it was being dictated instead by the needs of technology … by a conspiracy between human beings and techniques, by something that needed the energy-burst of war, crying, “Money be damned, the very life of [insert name of Nation] is at stake,” but meaning, most likely, dawn is nearly here, I need my night’s blood, my funding, funding, ahh more, more … …
Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow
On a personal level, I chose not to look at the eclipse but rather sat outside during it and listened and appreciated nature, instead of participating in it like a pop festival. My decision was based partly on belief but also I have to contemplate the mass production of glasses and how they will only be used once, polluting our earth with plastics and harmful metals.
Lorin Morgan-Richards
This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident... something escaped from the factory, a yellow gas. It floated over the town so fast that we didn't see it, didn't realize... and then it was too late, and Dark Falls wasn't a normal town anymore.
R.L. Stine Welcome to Dead House
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.

Used 13 times in crossword archives (1949–2022).